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Lottia instabilis Unstable Limpet, Unstable Seaweed Limpet, rocking chair limpet.

Lottia instabilis is commonly referred to as Unstable Limpet, Unstable Seaweed Limpet, rocking chair limpet.. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.


Profilbild Urheber Douglas Mason, USA

Lottia instabilis on feather-boa kelp (HMB) 2008


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lexID:
15193 
AphiaID:
510025 
Scientific:
Lottia instabilis 
German:
Instabile-Napfschnecke 
English:
Unstable Limpet, Unstable Seaweed Limpet, Rocking Chair Limpet. 
Category:
Snails 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Not assigned (Order) > Lottiidae (Family) > Lottia (Genus) > instabilis (Species) 
Initial determination:
(A. Gould, ), 1846 
Occurrence:
Alaska East Coast USA, Canada Eastern Pacific, North Pacific (Ocean), USA 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
0 - 73 Meter 
Size:
3,5 cm 
Food:
Algae (Algivore) 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2022-09-22 16:52:34 

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Lottia instabilis (A. Gould, 1846)

The Unstable Limpet is a herbivore and feeds directly on kelps such as Saccharina dentigera and Pterygophora californica.

Synonymised names:
Acmaea instabilis (A. Gould, 1846) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)
Acmaea ochracea (Dall, 1871) · unaccepted
Collisella instabilis (A. Gould, 1846) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)
Collisella patina var. ochracea Dall, 1871 · unaccepted (basionym)
Lottia ochracea (Dall, 1871) · unaccepted
Patella instabilis A. Gould, 1846 · unaccepted (original combination)

External links

  1. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 22.09.2022.
  2. WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 22.09.2022.

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